Workflow Type: Galaxy

Identifies differentially expressed genes between exactly two experimental conditions from count tables. The workflow performs statistical testing, applies filters based on adjusted p-value and log2 fold change thresholds, and generates publication-quality visualizations including volcano plots, MA plots, and heatmaps. Takes two collections of count tables as input and produces filtered gene lists and interactive plots for interpreting expression differences. Optimal for simple two-condition experimental designs.

Inputs

ID Name Description Type
Adjusted p-value threshold Adjusted p-value threshold Adjusted p-value threshold to call genes as differentially expressed in diagnostic plots. If not set, default 0.05 is used.
  • float
Count files have header Count files have header Usually, count files generated from featureCounts tool have a header line whereas count files from RNA-STAR do not have.
  • boolean
Counts from changed condition Counts from changed condition Counts from experimental condition or changed condition. For eg. counts from treatment or knockdown samples.
  • File[]
Counts from reference condition Counts from reference condition Counts from reference condition or base condition. For eg. counts from untreated or wildtype samples.
  • File[]
Gene Annotaton Gene Annotaton The same annotation GTF used for mapping and counting
  • File
log2 fold change threshold log2 fold change threshold log2 fold change threshold to filter for highly regulated genes. If not set, default 1.0 is used.
  • float

Steps

ID Name Description
5 Create text file toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/text_processing/tp_text_file_with_recurring_lines/9.5+galaxy3
7 Differential Analysis toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/deseq2/deseq2/2.11.40.8+galaxy2
8 Compose text parameter value toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/compose_text_param/compose_text_param/0.1.1
9 Text transformation toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/text_processing/tp_sed_tool/9.5+galaxy3
10 Compose text parameter value toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/compose_text_param/compose_text_param/0.1.1
11 Annotate DESeq2/DEXSeq output tables toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/deg_annotate/deg_annotate/1.1.0+galaxy1
12 Text reformatting toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/text_processing/tp_awk_tool/9.5+galaxy3
13 Annotate DESeq2 table toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/text_processing/tp_cat/9.5+galaxy3
14 Parse parameter value param_value_from_file
15 Filter with p-adj threshold Filter1
16 Generate Volcanot plot of DE genes toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/volcanoplot/volcanoplot/4.0.1+galaxy0
17 Compose text parameter value toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/compose_text_param/compose_text_param/0.1.1
18 Filter with log2 FC threshold Filter1
19 Join two Datasets join1
20 Cut Cut1
21 Generate Heatmap of counts toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/ggplot2_heatmap2/ggplot2_heatmap2/3.3.0+galaxy0
22 Generate Heatmap of Z-scores toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/ggplot2_heatmap2/ggplot2_heatmap2/3.3.0+galaxy0

Outputs

ID Name Description Type
DESeq2 Plots DESeq2 Plots n/a
  • File
DESeq2 Normalized Counts DESeq2 Normalized Counts n/a
  • File
Annotated DESeq2 results table Annotated DESeq2 results table n/a
  • File
Volcano Plot of DE genes Volcano Plot of DE genes n/a
  • File
Significantly differentially expressed genes Significantly differentially expressed genes n/a
  • File
Heatmap of log transformed normalized counts Heatmap of log transformed normalized counts n/a
  • File
Heatmap of Z-scores Heatmap of Z-scores n/a
  • File

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